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Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition
Speaker 1: of mix Shots, and it's a very big edition of
Speaker 1: mix Shots. As we come to the end of the
Speaker 1: month of August, September is right around the corner, and
Speaker 1: the Bewitching hours right around the corner to Samurai edition
Speaker 1: Samurai Shots. As we are one hour away from when
Speaker 1: the cuts become official. The deadline is three o'clock Dallas time.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola. We will not cut
Speaker 1: the roster here. We won't be making the cuts, but
Speaker 1: we are going to stick around at least Mickey and
Speaker 1: Everson are past three o'clock. Over time, Baby, over time.
Speaker 1: We will bring you the cuts as they happen at
Speaker 1: three o'clock this afternoon. Team is off today and it
Speaker 1: would be a great day to get ready for Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay out there because it is hot outside. I think
Speaker 1: there was I think there was some running going on today. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm running out there. I'm running. I'm running what
Speaker 1: they're running for? Heat, trying to get in shape. Yes,
Speaker 1: too late, too late, they're on their own run. Got
Speaker 1: two weeks. Yeah, that's a dedicated team, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's procrastination. If you had a mandatory by the collective
Speaker 1: Bargaining Agreement, a mandatory three days off, how would you
Speaker 1: spend it? If it's mandatory, I'd spend it off, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be running. He wouldn't be He wouldn't
Speaker 1: be running, he wouldn't be jogging. I wouldn't be jogging.
Speaker 1: That's what I do now. I would not do running,
Speaker 1: all right. But we've got a lot of reports about
Speaker 1: things that are happening behind the scenes as players are
Speaker 1: being notified of their fate. But really, what's interesting about this,
Speaker 1: and as you all know, the roster manipulation that takes
Speaker 1: place at this time Cowboys for injured players that they
Speaker 1: want to bring back during the season, they've got to
Speaker 1: be on this fifty three man roster, and then moves
Speaker 1: will be made to put them on the injured reserve
Speaker 1: list that would keep them out for at least three
Speaker 1: weeks during the regular season, and so a lot of
Speaker 1: these people, a lot of these players who are getting
Speaker 1: quote unquote bad news today, they could be resigned tomorrow.
Speaker 1: There's a sixteen man practice squad as well, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of these players that are not out of
Speaker 1: work after today, right, mickey, exactly, And there could be
Speaker 1: like four more out of work by Thursday because COVID
Speaker 1: four are not counted on. Are you go on the
Speaker 1: fifty three man ross? Who are the prominent names on that?
Speaker 1: So you're talking Connor Williams, Demante Kazu CD Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you said prominent players, and now those are very significant stars.
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins four four starters. Yes, a star met the
Speaker 1: four starters, right, I was just doing off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. So, yeah, those guys don't count by
Speaker 1: my count. They have six or seven guys that they
Speaker 1: could place on the reserve injured list twenty four hours
Speaker 1: after the final cuts, so by three o'clock on Wednesday, Uh,
Speaker 1: they can move those guy to injured reserve. So that
Speaker 1: would allow them to bring back as many as six
Speaker 1: or seven tomorrow three o'clock tomorrow. You gotta be on
Speaker 1: it twenty four hours. Would you care to read off
Speaker 1: your lists, so I think they're likely candidates that would
Speaker 1: move to the injured reserve. As Bill said, you have
Speaker 1: to miss at least the first three games of the season.
Speaker 1: We can start with Neville Gallimore with the dislocated elbow.
Speaker 1: Sean McEwan the tight end. He's your third tight end,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens after that. Josh Ball, their
Speaker 1: fourth round draft choice, had a high ankle sprain. He's
Speaker 1: just getting back on the cord, so they could create
Speaker 1: a spot there by putting him on returnable IR. Kelvin
Speaker 1: Joseph had a groin injury on Sunday. I think he's
Speaker 1: a candidate for that. I saw him Elite Turner's name
Speaker 1: come up. He had a foot injury that he was nursing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then someone that I'm sure everybody's not thinking about,
Speaker 1: Francis Bernard. They really liked the linebacker as he's a
Speaker 1: second year guy, a special team's guy. He's been out
Speaker 1: with a hamstring, and my understanding is he re injured
Speaker 1: in a different spot on that same handstring. Okay, so
Speaker 1: he's not ready hamstring. And then uh, Terrell Basham has
Speaker 1: not practiced in three weeks. Maybe Bill, I think it
Speaker 1: happened early in training camp. I think his was a hamstring,
Speaker 1: No it was maybe it was a spring. I forgot which,
Speaker 1: but anyway, they spent more money on him in free
Speaker 1: agency than in Noah Ken. Maybe. Well there was a
Speaker 1: two year deal for a Bash and Niels was basically
Speaker 1: a two year deal, but it was really structured as one.
Speaker 1: So in other words, they have plans for Bash him, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, so you could see those guys make
Speaker 1: the initial roster and then twenty four hours later you
Speaker 1: you let him get onto injured reserve return and then
Speaker 1: you can bring back some guys you had to cut. Now,
Speaker 1: the key thing is releasing guys that are vested veterans,
Speaker 1: so you gotta have four years in the league because
Speaker 1: those guys don't have to go through waivers. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you one example. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: going to happen with him or not, but the safety
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson, who had been you know, in the game
Speaker 1: starting because of the COVID and injury for safety, and
Speaker 1: he's a special teams guy. So he's a guy that
Speaker 1: you could tell, Okay, we're letting you go and you're
Speaker 1: on a one year deal unless somebody comes to you
Speaker 1: and gives you a sweetheart deal. We want you back,
Speaker 1: so check with us before you go, because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to go through waivers, and we want you back
Speaker 1: for probably the same contract. Okay, and he's going to
Speaker 1: play not practice field. No, no, not practice squid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll put you on the fifty three. And so if
Speaker 1: you remember that they did that with Kellen Moore twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: maybe it was they they they released in sixty sixteen,
Speaker 1: So twenty seventeen, they released him and then told him
Speaker 1: you're you're the backup guy. We're bringing you back, and
Speaker 1: they made him the offensive coordinate and then they made
Speaker 1: up the offensive coordinator for his loyalty, right, and so
Speaker 1: he didn't go anywhere. And so if you know, so
Speaker 1: if you know you've got one year guys, uh, and see,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do it with a guy that
Speaker 1: has two years because if he has any signing bonus,
Speaker 1: as soon as you release him, the second year comes
Speaker 1: goes due into this year's cap. So one year guys.
Speaker 1: So if you see some one year guys, and I
Speaker 1: you know, I saw some guys that were vested that
Speaker 1: they could go through this. Uh mentioned Darien Thompson. It
Speaker 1: could happen with Maurice Kennedy he was on his last year.
Speaker 1: Malik Cooker, you could I know, they want him on
Speaker 1: the team. Uh, and he's only on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: And then the tight end Jeremy Sprinkle. Uh, he's a
Speaker 1: vested veteran and he's on a one year deal. So
Speaker 1: you could say, okay, when we put mckeenan on, you
Speaker 1: come back. Now, somebody could come to these guys and
Speaker 1: give them a better deal, and you go, okay, you
Speaker 1: know we took the shot, but we were trying to
Speaker 1: save a roster spot. So uh, those guys, I was
Speaker 1: just looking at him. Know what about Eugene that tight end?
Speaker 1: Is he still he has to go through waivers? Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's getting released, Okay, I think Uh had a
Speaker 1: couple of plays in the game, that's all. I was just, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just didn't number forty seven they thought about him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the the and then you got two guys that
Speaker 1: will end up staying on PUP, which would be trist
Speaker 1: And Hill and Chauncey Gholston. So that means they cannot
Speaker 1: play or practice for the first six weeks. And they
Speaker 1: thought they were that far behind. So you can do
Speaker 1: all that kind of uh stuff, and you know the
Speaker 1: guys that they supposedly are, you know, being reported that
Speaker 1: they've released already. H and we can go over and
Speaker 1: after do the whole thing. Benda, Nuccie Garrett, Gilbert, Jaquan Hardy,
Speaker 1: Brendan Knox, Brendan Smith, Johnny Dixon, uh oh, Sirius Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Eric Smith, Braylon Jones, Rondelle Carter Austin, follow Thompson, and
Speaker 1: Tyler Coyle. So those were the names that have come out.
Speaker 1: So Parker on that I and Stephen Parker sorry, and
Speaker 1: Deonte Burton by the way, Yeah, that's the one I
Speaker 1: figured that, so you you Banks is actually not on
Speaker 1: there yet. We'll see what happens there. Neither as Nick Ralston,
Speaker 1: who you know if they and they they've only got
Speaker 1: two probably so he could be considered the third Slash
Speaker 1: Bestial Teams player, the full Ralston, the fullback from one
Speaker 1: of those guys. They could bring him back on the
Speaker 1: practice or Hardy on the back party. Yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: one you like, Bess? I like Hardy? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I like Hardy. He had pretty good games. Yes, it did.
Speaker 1: Now it's a matter of who can do some special
Speaker 1: team stuff. Uh and so so yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to consider. And then in twenty four hours you have
Speaker 1: the ability to put sixteen guys on your practice squad.
Speaker 1: And remember there's I think there might be a four
Speaker 1: man limit on veterans that you can put on that
Speaker 1: practice squad. Now it doesn't matter how many years. So
Speaker 1: like Darren Thompson could come back and they put him
Speaker 1: on the practice squad if they want they want to
Speaker 1: continue the backup quarterback competition. Garrett Gilbert could come back
Speaker 1: and be placed on the practice where he was when
Speaker 1: they found him last year and practice where he's been previously. Right,
Speaker 1: And then if you really like them, you could protect
Speaker 1: the guys like they did last year with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: I think he got protected like four or five times.
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks have is so nice. Man, You could protected Bok
Speaker 1: and you could have protected you could have protected cornerback.
Speaker 1: You can, but you don't. It's just the way I
Speaker 1: will know, because it is going to be if the
Speaker 1: couarterback is good. If the quarterback's good, he's on your
Speaker 1: roster exactly. You're not gonna cut him and then playing
Speaker 1: games with that one other guy for and Chris Beam
Speaker 1: pointed it out to me that we have not mentioned
Speaker 1: for you Texas tech fans out there, t J Vasher,
Speaker 1: who has not worked out. He's been on NFI's right,
Speaker 1: so he will start the season on NFI exactly in
Speaker 1: the likelihood. So so yeah, so there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of things going to happen in the next twenty four hours. Basically, yep,
Speaker 1: all right, so the quarterback you want to start with
Speaker 1: the back quarterback, we should start there. Okay. So reports
Speaker 1: are that Gilbert and Dnucci will be let go and
Speaker 1: is basically confirmed by Jerry Jones this morning on his
Speaker 1: radio show. Yes, that Cooper Rush is well I'm not
Speaker 1: quoting Jerry here, but I will say, for now, Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is the backup quarterback. And he said because he
Speaker 1: has shown he can run the complete offense, all the
Speaker 1: things that make for a real comfortable situation here. So boy,
Speaker 1: that was kind of comfortable. Comfortable. Yeah, Yes, I don't
Speaker 1: know about that, because well, I think I think what
Speaker 1: he was trying to point out is he's been here,
Speaker 1: he knows the offense. He's been you know, I think
Speaker 1: everybody forgets for two and a half years. He was
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback since his rookie year and he took
Speaker 1: over for Kellen Moore and then the next two before
Speaker 1: they let him go last year and then brought him
Speaker 1: back on the practice squad. Let's call it lesser of
Speaker 1: the evils? Can we do that instead of comfortable? And
Speaker 1: the other thing to consider on it, I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: and unless you have some I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: any quarterback out there that might be with another team
Speaker 1: who's has experience in this system. Yeah, you know. The
Speaker 1: other thing is Cooper Rush has been here starting last year.
Speaker 1: I mean he was here before that obviously, dacks back
Speaker 1: up prior to McCarthy becoming the head coach and Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore Collin Blaze last year, and he comes back last
Speaker 1: year after the Cowboys let him go when they signed
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. And when you look at other quarterbacks out there,
Speaker 1: even if there's one that you like out there that
Speaker 1: you want to sign, is he ready to step in
Speaker 1: if needed at Tampa Bay next week? You got to
Speaker 1: have someone who's been in the system throughout this offseason
Speaker 1: and preseason because otherwise you're starting from scratch, right, And
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear this stuff when they bring
Speaker 1: in a quarterback and it's like, well, he wasn't here,
Speaker 1: you know, when they brought in the New England guy
Speaker 1: that year when Romo got hurt by twenty fifteen Bill
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, they brought in the veteran guy, his Castle,
Speaker 1: Matt cass Castle, and he got here and he stunk,
Speaker 1: yes did he was done? Yeah. But they kept saying, well,
Speaker 1: he's new to the system. I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: that that's a euphemism for it. He doesn't. He's not playing.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying, if there's someone they like out there,
Speaker 1: it might take him a month to get acclimated or
Speaker 1: to learn the system of system and the plays and
Speaker 1: so forth. Him on the practice so or you could now,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have room on the fifth, if
Speaker 1: you really like him, you need to put him on
Speaker 1: the fifty three. Then there's a spot there and Cooper
Speaker 1: can be the backup for now. And then as you
Speaker 1: groom this guy, whoever it is that you like, you
Speaker 1: bring back both book. You could bring back both guys
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, Gilbert and Denucci, you know, and
Speaker 1: again you know, yeah, I'm not feeling that. Look the
Speaker 1: second half. Feeling a second half. He showed that all
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks you can bring you could work with him
Speaker 1: at Castle included uh and you know, I know he
Speaker 1: when he gets into games. There were times he didn't
Speaker 1: look good, but there were other times he threw some
Speaker 1: nice passes. So you got sixteen guys in the practice squad,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't hurt to have two quarterbacks there. They
Speaker 1: probably should put a punter or kicker on. Definitely. I
Speaker 1: think every team in the league needs to have someone
Speaker 1: who can kick or punt or preferably both on the
Speaker 1: practice squad because of the COVID situation. Remind me, did
Speaker 1: somebody pick up nice wander he got placed on injured reserve?
Speaker 1: Didn't he? Yea by though the Cowboys did right? Oh
Speaker 1: about yeah he's done right yeah? Um, you got too
Speaker 1: many guys that you're keeping up with. Well there's ninety.
Speaker 1: I gotta say we we saw a defensive bag that
Speaker 1: made the best kickoff I've ever seen by someone that
Speaker 1: wasn't a kicker. Did you see that in the Texans game, Jeff,
Speaker 1: that wasn't He was a little dark than he was,
Speaker 1: I believe Texans, but Houston Texans this week, I have
Speaker 1: a defensive back that can boot it. I think he
Speaker 1: was number twenty for the Texans. I mean he I
Speaker 1: think it was almost all the way to the gold line.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like it's something that he was just
Speaker 1: trying out. You can tell that this guy has had
Speaker 1: some type of kicking in his background. I knew I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have thrown that. I'm just looking last week's Texans.
Speaker 1: I believe John Reid was number twenty for them and
Speaker 1: they let him. They traded him away I think recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously recently. I gotta look it up. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: look it up now. Now it's he was like like
Speaker 1: in the last few days. But you're right, quarterbacks just
Speaker 1: it was justin readers but just as important. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and punters just as important. This field goal kid, so
Speaker 1: luck goes into this thing. Yeah, Justin Reider's number twenty.
Speaker 1: John Reid was number thirty four. I think they traded
Speaker 1: a Seattle or someplace. But yeah, I'm watching it right now.
Speaker 1: He booted at Justin Reid. Um, there's a pretty good
Speaker 1: player too. He did was on hord Knocks Highlights on
Speaker 1: Hord Knocks for Houston. Yeah, I think he was a
Speaker 1: highlight on Hard Knight. They showed his family, great family.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I can think it's some Stanford he's
Speaker 1: Stanford y. Yeah, that was a great believe it's Eric
Speaker 1: Reid's brother. I think so. So if you've seen a
Speaker 1: quarterback out there that you say bring him in, well,
Speaker 1: there's one as a developmental guy that I really like,
Speaker 1: and that's Shane Bouchell. And he played well for Kansas City. Released.
Speaker 1: I have heard reports that it looks like he might
Speaker 1: be released, but I'm sure that they have plans to
Speaker 1: try to sign him to their practice squad and probably
Speaker 1: told him that. So anyway, of course, Shane Bouchell from here,
Speaker 1: Arlington Lamar High School. Uh, that started his college career
Speaker 1: at Texas and then at SMU and UM, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked good the other day for Kansas City.
Speaker 1: So's there? Who's there? Chat? Hanny is a veteran, Chat
Speaker 1: Hanny is there? So but I haven't seen anything. You know.
Speaker 1: Somebody brought up to me on Twitter, Josh Rosen, and
Speaker 1: I said, oh, the guy that's on his fifteen fifteam
Speaker 1: in four years. Everybody can't be wrong about him. Right
Speaker 1: first round drafting, I know. I mean, he was the
Speaker 1: man coming out. They talked about his intellect, they talked
Speaker 1: about his leadership, you know, his confidence that he has
Speaker 1: in himself, and that just didn't do anything for him.
Speaker 1: He can't stick the other guy. I noticed Carolina released
Speaker 1: Will Grier. He was a third round pick two years ago.
Speaker 1: I believe it was out of where West Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, about how Yer, he's still brings us
Speaker 1: to once again, Mickey buries the lead here. What did
Speaker 1: the Patriots do today? They cut Cam Newton? Shocking? Shocking?
Speaker 1: Was it shocking? No? I don't think it to me
Speaker 1: if you've been watching what's going on there. The only
Speaker 1: good thing I can say about that is Cam actually
Speaker 1: had a decent preseason. I mean when I say decent,
Speaker 1: but Matt McDonald's his was even better. He got beat
Speaker 1: out and they fairly, and they didn't keep him as
Speaker 1: the backup. By the way, well, if you looked at
Speaker 1: their depth chart with not only mac Jones, Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: and then with Brian Howyer the veteran and Jared Stidham,
Speaker 1: it was obvious that if Cam was not the starter,
Speaker 1: Howyer is going to be the backup or Stidham. But
Speaker 1: Howyer is your veteran backup guy. They bought like've always
Speaker 1: liked him and his and his base salary wasn't unreasonable.
Speaker 1: It was three and a half million. You would pay
Speaker 1: that for a veteran backup quarterback. But the key thing
Speaker 1: was he had fourteen million dollars in incentives that he
Speaker 1: could earn for various reasons. And I think they probably
Speaker 1: saw that and go okay, now, that would be a
Speaker 1: little pricey. Even if he helped us win a few
Speaker 1: games that young quarter kind, I still don't think they
Speaker 1: have enough offensive talent to help him as a young
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. The defense is stacked again. Players back hopped
Speaker 1: it out from last year. They back a couple of
Speaker 1: my part, they reacquired them. They were playing for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins last year and now they're back with the Bakers.
Speaker 1: All they did leave Gilmore on pup right he's on
Speaker 1: pup to start six. I think the other reason is
Speaker 1: you don't want that guy in your locker room. He
Speaker 1: wants to be a starter right now he's not. He
Speaker 1: may not be as good a teammate as we've seen
Speaker 1: him running down the field. Patton Jones up over the
Speaker 1: top o the right. And the other thing is is
Speaker 1: I read uh some comments from the cap It was
Speaker 1: the running back White. Is that James James White, And
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he said that mac Jones
Speaker 1: got better, better and better, and when he got into
Speaker 1: the into the huddle, he convinced the other guys in
Speaker 1: that huddle that he was the guy. And so when
Speaker 1: I started reading that and the captain said that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you wouldn't have said it if you didn't
Speaker 1: believe it, right, rum, if it was Hoga Boom or
Speaker 1: Danny White, Right, I said what I said. I'm on
Speaker 1: the record that remind us I was the leader. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was the leader of the quarterback controversy. What nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four. I just thought Hoga Boom was a better
Speaker 1: player than Danny White. I thought he inspired us more.
Speaker 1: And that simply came from the fact that Danny was
Speaker 1: having some issues. I believe that was in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: three when he had the issues and he just couldn't
Speaker 1: he couldn't get us over the hump. You know, you
Speaker 1: could blame a lot of people for us not getting
Speaker 1: over the hump. There's no doubt, including myself, in regards
Speaker 1: to getting through that championship games. But man, when you
Speaker 1: look at the way Hoga Boom came into that Washington
Speaker 1: Bad Skin game, and that's what they were at that time.
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't help but be inspired and be
Speaker 1: uninspired by by Danny White's performance at that and then
Speaker 1: by halfway through the season he proved that he wasn't
Speaker 1: a starting he was the backup that he should have been. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which happens with a lot of backup quarterbacks, right, as
Speaker 1: long as they don't have to play, they are really
Speaker 1: good backups. To review nineteen eighty four, when it was
Speaker 1: probably what would it be now thirty seven years ago,
Speaker 1: maybe even thirty seven years ago today, Tom Landry made
Speaker 1: the announcement that pos Derek would start at quarterback. So
Speaker 1: you want to hear remember that, you want to hear
Speaker 1: he hated this moment. The thing before he says the
Speaker 1: thing about this with Tom Landry, he you know, he
Speaker 1: hated giving up the power, so to speak, The fact
Speaker 1: that we made this decision for him. That flies in
Speaker 1: the face of any head coach, especially when with the
Speaker 1: kind of pride that Tom Landry had. And I think
Speaker 1: and that's just the way there is, and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this way. Coaches are all over the world. I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's soccer or whatever. They're not going
Speaker 1: to help the quarterback that he didn't choose. Right, And
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, coaches, I don't say throw games.
Speaker 1: They don't throw games, but they're not gonna lift too
Speaker 1: many fingers if this is your guy. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to prove to you that my team doesn't run this team.
Speaker 1: My players don't run this team. I run this team.
Speaker 1: So you want hugga boom, go ahead, I'm throwing them
Speaker 1: to the wolves. So that's what he did to the Wolves.
Speaker 1: It was positive and there was a I guess there
Speaker 1: was a position battle of one of the tackle spots.
Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was right tackle or left
Speaker 1: tackle for Positiic right, but uh and so then uh
Speaker 1: not positive Hogan Bloom. So August thirty first, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: So the day they made that announcement was the day
Speaker 1: I came to Dallas for my interview at the Dallas
Speaker 1: Times Herald. Wow. And I'm sitting in the newsroom and
Speaker 1: the sports editor comes up to me and we were
Speaker 1: supposed to have an interview at say, ten o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. He come up to me. He goes, hey,
Speaker 1: I apologize. Our special edition for the season is coming
Speaker 1: out today and the cover story was on Danny White
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to change it. So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna I can get back to you in probably
Speaker 1: an hour or two. You have to wait on your interview,
Speaker 1: right and and and he said yeah, And you know,
Speaker 1: I was interviewing for the backup job on the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and they couldn't find the beat writer. And so I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there going, Okay, unless I call this guy an soob,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna get this job. You're all working out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the way you planned it. You were so you
Speaker 1: were the backup quarterback. Then you're interviewing by the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback job, backup beat. Yeah right, yeah, you're on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire at that point, and they were about to
Speaker 1: pick you up. My guy had to get taken off
Speaker 1: the front page of the season preview back. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. So right now, Cooper Rush is
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback, and we'll see what's out there and
Speaker 1: see if there's anything that intrigues this coaching staff as
Speaker 1: far as another quarterback that they might bring into the mix,
Speaker 1: whether it be on the practice squad or the fifty three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and someone also and I thought it was a good tweet.
Speaker 1: They suggested, well, why don't the Cowboys give the Bears
Speaker 1: a six for Nick Foles? And I was like, that's
Speaker 1: not a bad idea. His base salary is only four million,
Speaker 1: four million, but he too has a bunch of incentives,
Speaker 1: no incentives, but he has. For the Bears to do that,
Speaker 1: they would incur fourteen million in dead money immediately, and
Speaker 1: so you would have to give him more than a
Speaker 1: sixth to convince them to take on that amount of
Speaker 1: dead money over this year and next year. And you
Speaker 1: know who knows the cheaper move is to let Dalton go.
Speaker 1: But they named him the starter. That's crazy. I didn't
Speaker 1: even hardly see Dalton play in the preseason. Everything was
Speaker 1: about Fields and how well he played. Right point, he's
Speaker 1: the starter, right fields will be, but fields will be
Speaker 1: the starter at some point. But as Dalton said in
Speaker 1: his press conference, the Bears told him it is his time.
Speaker 1: He got worked to do. He got worked, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Wander Ball on Twitter does ask about Cam
Speaker 1: Newton released excellent number two pickup for Cowboys. Would you
Speaker 1: like to respond to that Mickey number one? I think
Speaker 1: another reason they let him go was his unvaccinated status
Speaker 1: and then the complications that incurred. Do you want your
Speaker 1: backup quarterback not vaccinated. I'm not saying that anybody would
Speaker 1: ever admit that, but it's got to go through what
Speaker 1: they admitted or not. We know it. You just don't
Speaker 1: want that headache. And unless he's going to be somebody
Speaker 1: out there that you don't really count on, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it has to have an amazing talent and
Speaker 1: right now Cam Newton does not have that, you know. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, they wouldn't admit it, but there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. You don't want to bring that headache
Speaker 1: in because you've got enough problems going on around the
Speaker 1: whole NFL right now in regards to these testing and
Speaker 1: vaccinations and just in the locker room it is is
Speaker 1: he comfortable being the backup? And and you know what
Speaker 1: happens from a social media fan standpoint, demitted, Dac throws
Speaker 1: two interceptions in one game. What would got him start Canada? Well,
Speaker 1: that was the same reason would be in New England
Speaker 1: as well. Right, the rookie throws a couple of interceptions.
Speaker 1: They don't want Cam breathing down his neck or looking
Speaker 1: over his shoulder, which you know he probably wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: I think he's smart enough as a veteran to know
Speaker 1: how to handle himself. It wouldn't be up to him.
Speaker 1: Everyone else. All the speculation alone would drive everything, and
Speaker 1: that's not what you want. And I think when you
Speaker 1: start a young guy like that, you gotta convince him
Speaker 1: you're we're all in on you. There's no turning back
Speaker 1: because if you stop, he was let go, right, That's
Speaker 1: why he was leaving. So now do you want to
Speaker 1: bring that here? I don't think it's the same in
Speaker 1: regards to Dad though, right, I really don't, because Da
Speaker 1: being the veteran that he is. But I just Cam
Speaker 1: is just one of those guys. His presence in the
Speaker 1: locker room is a distraction alone. But cut your hair,
Speaker 1: or if you were if you were advising Cam Newton
Speaker 1: aside from the vaccination part of it, but if you
Speaker 1: were advising him right now on what he should do.
Speaker 1: Let's say a team was interested in him being a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, would it be better on his part to
Speaker 1: take on that role, or wait until there's an injury
Speaker 1: in the league and then a team might bring him
Speaker 1: in and they would craft their offense around his talents.
Speaker 1: In particular, I would have to have him in earlier.
Speaker 1: If I'm going to use him, he's got to come
Speaker 1: in and learn the system. It's a long season. I'm
Speaker 1: talking if if if I'm consulting him, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have him do an entire makeover, because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's not his fault. Well, he's been in this position before.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's got in basketball. Got to change your
Speaker 1: whole outlook, your whole you know, not just how you think,
Speaker 1: but just basically how you carry yourself. That's just the
Speaker 1: way it is a camp. It's a shame that that's
Speaker 1: the way it is. But he's such a big presence.
Speaker 1: He carries such a resume with him. Let's just think
Speaker 1: about that going on way back to college, high school.
Speaker 1: So when he steps into the locker room, that presence alone, punately,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. It's not nothing negative, like charismatic,
Speaker 1: and he brings all of that with him. It's not baggage.
Speaker 1: That's a great resume that he brings. I think he could.
Speaker 1: I think Dak and he would probably get along here well,
Speaker 1: but him learning the system alone, can he research that
Speaker 1: talent that I don't know his His preseason was good though,
Speaker 1: had good preseason games that kept him in, you know,
Speaker 1: within himself, he might already be making that. I just
Speaker 1: think if he had some just with some patience right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if he had an offer right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's say Urban Meyer in Jacksonville, who had
Speaker 1: even in college, I believe in Florida. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would just say, okay, let
Speaker 1: me wait a little bit and let me see, Let's
Speaker 1: let a couple of weeks go by, and let's see
Speaker 1: if there's any lunch uh with Cam in the locker room. Damn,
Speaker 1: you don't want launch? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm just I
Speaker 1: just threw up. I was just thinking, though I had launch,
Speaker 1: that's almost the same position that he just left, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially after the way he played said yes, well that
Speaker 1: was I know, but it was still pretty impressive. He
Speaker 1: was dropping dimes. Sean Payton's got his quarterbacks right with
Speaker 1: Jamison Taysom Hill there. Oh no, they I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just thinking in general. He just said, um oh,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking in general on on a team that might
Speaker 1: be interested in cam It got it got pointed out
Speaker 1: who they're back up was going to be because they
Speaker 1: look at Hill as part of the offense. Right, so
Speaker 1: they had oh gosh, I can't think of who it is.
Speaker 1: I just read it, uh that that this guy was
Speaker 1: going to be consider well he's been around a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was going to be their their backup quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: they've got a rookie ian book from Notre Dame. I
Speaker 1: don't think that was the name I saw. Trevor Simeon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trevor Simion was going to be the backup because they're
Speaker 1: going to consider uh part of their offers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there there will be a role for Hill. Yeah. Hill
Speaker 1: wasn't whether he made the quarterback so on quarterback job
Speaker 1: or not. He's going to be parting the offense, so speaking,
Speaker 1: they've paid him to be a part of the speaking
Speaker 1: of the Saints. Looks like they're here for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, maybe longer. Yeah, maybe Payton in here. That's
Speaker 1: your body right, yeah, last time. So it sounds like
Speaker 1: they're going to practice here for four weeks. What it
Speaker 1: is now, Yeah, they're not going if they can't go
Speaker 1: back right, So now the question will be there their
Speaker 1: season opener, they opened against Green Bay at home and
Speaker 1: is at and T Stadium an option for that game.
Speaker 1: Cowboys obviously are not playing that weekend. They play on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I hear they have a concert on Wednesday that might
Speaker 1: conflict with having a game on Sunday. Side when the
Speaker 1: following Wednesday they got to set up for, so they
Speaker 1: gotta set up. But I saw who the concert was,
Speaker 1: Los Bucus b Ukis. This is their first tour in
Speaker 1: twenty five years. I'm thinking if somebody asked Jerry about it,
Speaker 1: it's like, we'll get set up in four hours, right
Speaker 1: if we can give them the stadium for that opener.
Speaker 1: But there was an assumption that that was the band
Speaker 1: that you know, was going to keep them, because you know,
Speaker 1: they said that the chances were with the indoor outdoor
Speaker 1: facilities at SMU and TCU that they could use that
Speaker 1: as their practice facility, just because so many things they
Speaker 1: just go back to field. No, no, they're playing green ball,
Speaker 1: you say, but it's a home game. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 1: don't want to give up the home field advantage. I
Speaker 1: mean they don't want to have the Packers have a
Speaker 1: home field. I mean they had to do that back
Speaker 1: during Contraria as gramming about that when we had to
Speaker 1: go to the Boys State and play in this note, Well,
Speaker 1: they don't give a crap. I don't come on during
Speaker 1: Katrina that their opener was against the nap opener was
Speaker 1: against the Giants and they had to play a home
Speaker 1: game at Giants Stadium. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. Okay, we're gonna take a break. And there's
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Speaker 1: Your tailgate just got jealous that there is a former
Speaker 1: a quarterback who used to play for Mike McCarthy getting
Speaker 1: released by the Colts, Brett Huntley. Now he was available
Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago. The Cowboys could have picked
Speaker 1: him up a few weeks ago. Well nocked him up
Speaker 1: in May when I tricked him out, Yeah, and decided
Speaker 1: not to. So there's another one there. And as far
Speaker 1: as Trevor Simeon, the Saints are reportedly releasing him, but
Speaker 1: due planned to re sign him, so he would be
Speaker 1: out there. There have been some teams that have had
Speaker 1: some interest in Trevor Simeon in the past. Could it
Speaker 1: be a bidding war for Trevor Simon? All right? Some
Speaker 1: news from the NFL network. The Cowboys Jags game on
Speaker 1: Sunday was the most watched NFL preseason game on the
Speaker 1: NFL Network since twenty eighteen. You think that had something
Speaker 1: to do with Trevor Lawrence. I think I think so, No, Cowboy,
Speaker 1: It had something to do with who was broadcasting the game.
Speaker 1: That's right, it was it was the it was the playmaker,
Speaker 1: same on me, right, it was the playmaker. It is audience.
Speaker 1: That was why Jones. That's why Stephen A. Smith wants
Speaker 1: the playmaker alongside him on ESPN um anyway, the and
Speaker 1: so what that tells you that was the first time
Speaker 1: in the Jerry Jones era that the Cowboys have played
Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon preseason game. But that tells you get ready,
Speaker 1: if we're going to keep playing these preseason games, the
Speaker 1: NFL Network's gonna want more Sunday afternoon preseason games. They
Speaker 1: have no competition. Well, didn't they have a Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: Well they had a triple header. I yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had. But Sunday noon. I mean, when you got
Speaker 1: nothing else to do, Sunday got the church. Well there's
Speaker 1: a reason that been so successful during the fall. Also,
Speaker 1: why would why would noon in August on a Sunday
Speaker 1: be any different than noon in September. That's why I
Speaker 1: used to say the blame the quiet crowds of Texas
Speaker 1: Stadium when they play a noon game on Sunday. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: these people just came from church to hear and they're
Speaker 1: just fired up. They had had a drink yet. Yeah right.
Speaker 1: But when you think about it, but hard Knocks, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Jerry's World, all of that kind of came into play
Speaker 1: for the NFL Network. Michael Ivan of course. But you know,
Speaker 1: but what's interesting about it, not only on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: all of the preseason games. You do not see the
Speaker 1: starters are not in the game. These are guys that
Speaker 1: are getting cut today, okay, that are playing, and the
Speaker 1: ratings do not drop during the course of the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing, it's and so to that point,
Speaker 1: the quote unquote America's team. People are watching the uniform.
Speaker 1: What I liked about it was, you know, just the
Speaker 1: fact that I saw what Cooper I was trying to
Speaker 1: do against a Jags almost first team defense. It was
Speaker 1: it was pretty much the only thing Jackson billed their offense.
Speaker 1: They have some injuries on their offensive line, and their
Speaker 1: starting right guard A. J. Ken is in COVID protocol,
Speaker 1: and so Lawrence was playing behind primarily a second team
Speaker 1: offensive line. But as far as what the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: was going up against, that was basically and Miles jack
Speaker 1: who urban Meyer during the week had said, I'm not
Speaker 1: I think he's maybe game ready already for the regular season.
Speaker 1: He was still in the game in the second We
Speaker 1: talked about that. We didn't even think he was gonna play, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So they really wanted to show what they could do
Speaker 1: because of course, you know, this is almost like Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson back in nineteen eighty nine. You have to see
Speaker 1: what you have as a coach. I don't care who
Speaker 1: what the veterans are. Guys, you have to show me
Speaker 1: something because I just got here. Okay, I'm every I
Speaker 1: just got here. I gotta know what you can do.
Speaker 1: You have to allow me to trust you first before
Speaker 1: I can give you any type of league way. And
Speaker 1: as we found out, that was all a mirage? Was
Speaker 1: that eighty nine preseason right? No? That was fun though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were undefeated. We scored a touchdown that was like
Speaker 1: a seventy two yard beat return for a touchdown I
Speaker 1: think against the Chargers of somebody beat Houston for beat
Speaker 1: Houston for the Governor's Cup in the fourth preseason game.
Speaker 1: Then we gonna walk off field goal. And then we
Speaker 1: go to New Orleans. Did we score a point? Nothing? Wow?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even think he had maybe one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards offense. Yeah. I think Jimmy got
Speaker 1: mad at us that day. Troy Aikman should have gotten
Speaker 1: mad at the offensive line. But you gotta know, but
Speaker 1: all we had, yes, we had. You had to know. Okay, Mickey,
Speaker 1: who's the backup center on this team. Well, if they
Speaker 1: had to play today and Connor Williams wasn't off the
Speaker 1: COVID list, it would be Matt Farniac. Okay, did you
Speaker 1: like him? I think they're going to keep him. I
Speaker 1: think they have to. They played well. Seventh round draft
Speaker 1: pick out of Nebraska. I thought he did too. I
Speaker 1: mean the whole line was having some issues. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's a front d line. So he's a big guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, he has just a little more experience
Speaker 1: at center than Matt or Connor Williams because I think
Speaker 1: he started one game for Nebraska center. That's all you need.
Speaker 1: It had been he'd been a guard in a tackle
Speaker 1: and immediately when they drafted him, they said he's a center.
Speaker 1: So he's been working there since, you know, April, late
Speaker 1: April May. So how about the shout out for the
Speaker 1: the NFL, I guess international program that they have. What
Speaker 1: about I think his name is Alergon Alercon. He'll be
Speaker 1: on a practice squad, pice squad. He came in trying
Speaker 1: to do some work too. You know what, he got better,
Speaker 1: he got stronger, and he had a nice story for
Speaker 1: hard Knocks, which, by the way, Episode four US Tonight
Speaker 1: nine o'clock Central. Have you gotten any preview of tonight?
Speaker 1: There is one out there and I hadn't looked at.
Speaker 1: I think there's something about a Michael Parsons barbecue. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: because I think when he got here somebody asked him
Speaker 1: about barbecue. I can't remember what it was. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: it was Bohannah, because I think his parents in Memphis
Speaker 1: have a barbecue place from Memphis, of course, yeah, from Memphis.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Memphis Barbecue, Texas barbecue. Okay. So as we
Speaker 1: look ahead to the team getting back on the practice
Speaker 1: field on Thursdays, where we where this team is right now,
Speaker 1: as we await the cuts coming down at three o'clock,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about things right now? Well, if
Speaker 1: if they get everybody back off covid um, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. I feel about from this standpoint,
Speaker 1: all right. Tampa Bay in their last preseason game, Brady
Speaker 1: was in for two series two scoring drives. He was
Speaker 1: eleven out of fourteen starters were in the game. By necessity,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys weren't able to play their starting quarterback of
Speaker 1: course in the preseason, and thus their first teamers didn't
Speaker 1: play now and also the Cowboys had a different preseason
Speaker 1: schedule than what other teams outside of the Steelers, well
Speaker 1: then all other teams really because with the four preseason
Speaker 1: games and then the quicker turnaround eleven days from August
Speaker 1: twenty ninth to September ninth. Yeah, the second guest is
Speaker 1: gonna have Okay's on Thursday night September ninth. If things
Speaker 1: do not go well for the Cowboys, then there's going
Speaker 1: to be the second Guesters out there. Well, they should
Speaker 1: have played played them. So they have five practices between
Speaker 1: now and leaving for Tampa, right, So I think these
Speaker 1: five practices they are greening significantly important for the offense
Speaker 1: to get everybody in there together because they hadn't had
Speaker 1: a chance and take a snap in a preseason game altogether,
Speaker 1: meaning Dak, the offensive line, the wide receivers, Zeke. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I've said this before on Dak. It's like, we're
Speaker 1: going to find out if you old axiom practice makes perfect, right, Well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need this practice to be perfect come September ninth.
Speaker 1: And then my other reservation is I think this defense
Speaker 1: is it better. I think it's improved. I think it
Speaker 1: improved with personnel. I think it's improved with Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and how he's coaching it and where he's playing people,
Speaker 1: But we don't know, Michael Levin said, And Bill was
Speaker 1: there when Michael Ivan repeated this. Tom Brady said he
Speaker 1: is going to rip a support. That's why. At the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame ceremony, in case you missed it on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, Michael said that Tom Brady came up to
Speaker 1: me and said, we're gonna rip your guys or whatever
Speaker 1: pot out. Yeah, and after what I saw that, I
Speaker 1: would believe the same thing. And then we asked Michael,
Speaker 1: what you say back to him? And he said, I
Speaker 1: can't say what I said back. Well, that's about all
Speaker 1: he would have. But that's all that was possibly. But
Speaker 1: you know Brady was jacket with right. But but Brady no,
Speaker 1: like no trust me. In Brady's head, he thinks, he
Speaker 1: thinks well, and that's what that was. What Michael's point was.
Speaker 1: He's competitive. I mean, now he's not just comparitive. He's
Speaker 1: not blind either, because he saw our defense from last year.
Speaker 1: He has to go on that. That's all he can
Speaker 1: go on. He doesn't see any improvement in this team
Speaker 1: now personnel wise, maybe, but have we had enough time
Speaker 1: to prepare for Tampa Bay. Bucking is in this offseason.
Speaker 1: You know why Michael saying that on the Cowboys broadcast.
Speaker 1: He's hoping that these Cowboys players hear that and that
Speaker 1: will be some extra motivation. I heard it, and I
Speaker 1: don't even play anymore. Trum. What effect did that have
Speaker 1: on you? If you were a little upset, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm upset now. Michael is the one that gets up
Speaker 1: on that big screen and right before get off, and
Speaker 1: and he's the one h that gives the pregame speech everybody,
Speaker 1: So that's not a speech. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: call that. So, and then the other thing we have
Speaker 1: to point out is after the Tampa Bay game, they
Speaker 1: have sixteen more games, right, Yeah, this defense and Quinn
Speaker 1: and Quinn's last time he spoke with this, Quinn's point was,
Speaker 1: you know, September ninth not an end date. We need
Speaker 1: to continue getting better and better and better as the
Speaker 1: season goes along. So this is going to be the
Speaker 1: first time too, they get all those guys together in
Speaker 1: in several weeks. Because Casey has been on the COVID list,
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins been on the Cone and so we'll see
Speaker 1: how this thing, you know, kind of they haven't had defensively,
Speaker 1: we haven't had much time together either. And the one
Speaker 1: thing I don't like that's happened going into this game
Speaker 1: is Neville Gallimore is not going to play for you know,
Speaker 1: at least three weeks because he was bawling out in
Speaker 1: the middle there. Uh. And now you're probably replacing him
Speaker 1: with a rookie. Uh. Oh DIGGI zoo who I like?
Speaker 1: You like them? But again, it's a rookie going up
Speaker 1: against a veteran offensive line. Uh. And then they can
Speaker 1: rotate in another rookie. Bohannah, I bet they use a
Speaker 1: lot of Brett Urban because at least he's a veteran.
Speaker 1: He's been around um SO and Justin Hamilton's actually kind
Speaker 1: of showed up in some of these games too. The
Speaker 1: other thing is, yes, but the key will be those
Speaker 1: defensive ends. Can Randy Gregory do what we think he
Speaker 1: can do? And the key will be their defensive ends
Speaker 1: as well. Right, how well does Tylan Smith hold up
Speaker 1: against JPP? Right? I mean he's playing very play very well.
Speaker 1: Last year. If you look at the Tampa Bay's season
Speaker 1: last year, they were a little shady starting off, they
Speaker 1: were they they made their their push if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: around nine game nine, all of a sudden like that,
Speaker 1: the defense gave the offense to catch up, and we
Speaker 1: don't have that luxury. That's the only thing that makes
Speaker 1: me nervous. I don't mind going up against their defense.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about how well our defense plays against their offense.
Speaker 1: That's the one that's the key. And here's the other
Speaker 1: thing is we have no idea how Dan Quinn is
Speaker 1: going to use the Cowboys defensive ends in the nickel
Speaker 1: package as far as and how he uses Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: in the in the nickel I mean, when you've got
Speaker 1: guys that uh, and that's one of the benefits I
Speaker 1: think of not playing your guys really during the preseason.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has no way of knowing exactly how Quinn
Speaker 1: is going to use you know, is DeMarcus Lawrence. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna at times rush from the inside? You know?
Speaker 1: Will they move him around? Will they take you know,
Speaker 1: have four defensive ends on the ever had a player
Speaker 1: like Posson's. I'm sure they'll go back in this history
Speaker 1: and see if he's had any player with that type
Speaker 1: of impact. And they say, well, how did he use
Speaker 1: that particular player, that's gonna be how he used Parsons.
Speaker 1: So if they've got some type of history on a
Speaker 1: player that was in the same stead that you have
Speaker 1: as Parsons, that's the other thing about the opener. You've
Speaker 1: got Okay, they've known since April that that they're playing
Speaker 1: each other in the opener, and so it's basically four
Speaker 1: or five months of preparing. Yeah, okay, one game for
Speaker 1: one game, you can go. You can go back in
Speaker 1: the archives and see get all the information you want
Speaker 1: on these guys. One of your time all summer. You
Speaker 1: were right, though I thought about it last night. Were
Speaker 1: so hyped up for Tampa. There's a lot of football
Speaker 1: to be played after that. Yeah, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get better to come out and win this game.
Speaker 1: We would probably be so excited. You don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, trafwids. Can't rest on your laurels worry about
Speaker 1: that with a young team like this, just don't make
Speaker 1: the offense score forty points to win, is it? Because
Speaker 1: now you're won back to the same pattern that you
Speaker 1: had left right, And if you can do that, then
Speaker 1: you give yourself a chance. Okay, it is two fifty
Speaker 1: one Dallas time. I have to hear. I have to
Speaker 1: bail because I have to go do a I get
Speaker 1: to do a zoom interview with Tyler. You have to
Speaker 1: you you know you hate to leave us. I hate
Speaker 1: to leave you. But I am doing a zoom interview
Speaker 1: with Tyler Beyondest and Travis Frederick Kingstead. I have to
Speaker 1: go get set up for at three o'clock. So, Mike
Speaker 1: cut I'm doing it three o'clock. Can I do it
Speaker 1: right here? Yeah? Right, do it as I got to
Speaker 1: go find a spot to do it from. And so
Speaker 1: so three o'clock there's a big studio I'm going. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm heading right now. Or if you have any
Speaker 1: question you'd like for me to pose to Douglas's office,
Speaker 1: any any question you'd like for me to pose to
Speaker 1: be honest or Frederick? I mean to stump you up.
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Speaker 1: Frederick about well, we're talking about the The reason that
Speaker 1: we're doing this is to Wisconsin guy, Noel Tyler is
Speaker 1: you know Travis has had the Great Blocking Hunger Charity
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Speaker 1: or one of it's on the board now of the
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Speaker 1: joining myself Mickey Spagnola here and hopefully in five minutes
Speaker 1: the official cuts will come down. They're supposed to come
Speaker 1: down at UH three pm. I think we've probably hit
Speaker 1: the majority of the moves, assuming they're all going to
Speaker 1: be official now, and that was what do you account fifteen?
Speaker 1: We mentioned fifteen that look like they were getting released,
Speaker 1: four more on the Cowboys COVID list, two more on PUP.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get what we look at as
Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster for the next twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and then when they make the moves, likely moves to
Speaker 1: put guys on reserve IR meaning recall that you can
Speaker 1: come back in three after three games. I think there'll
Speaker 1: be some more moves there, and they could bring back
Speaker 1: some guys that they cut before they bring back the
Speaker 1: guys that they cut. How many more moves do you
Speaker 1: think they have to make right now? Aside from what
Speaker 1: we've already discussed, they will have to make four more
Speaker 1: moves on Thursday, when the COVID guys come back. That's
Speaker 1: when they're expected to get back into practice. So then
Speaker 1: who you think they eyeballing? I hate to put, yeah,
Speaker 1: Samurai something that'll have to do it with the guys
Speaker 1: at the kind of the end of the roster, right,
Speaker 1: your last four or five guys, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I mean they don't have many veterans
Speaker 1: that they can are expendable, right. Uh. If they were,
Speaker 1: then you would try to trade them and get something
Speaker 1: for him. So the draft choices this year as well,
Speaker 1: including them. I think any surprises that you think, I think, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to probably the fifth round. Semi Fijoco.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he if they can keep six receivers.
Speaker 1: He caught a couple of passes. You could tell that
Speaker 1: that that Jack's game was approving, right game for him,
Speaker 1: right exactly. So we'll see where because we didn't see
Speaker 1: uh Brown, well that one, no, Noah Brown. Um and
Speaker 1: and so you know, and he's another guy that's a
Speaker 1: he's a one year guy, but he's not vested, so
Speaker 1: somebody could claim him. So I'm trying to think that
Speaker 1: we mentioned Farniac probably makes it as the seventh round pick,
Speaker 1: sixth round pick. Bohannah, Yeah, I would think he makes it.
Speaker 1: You think he makes it. Yeah, he looked good to me,
Speaker 1: but you know, I just wasn't sure if he had
Speaker 1: enough time to prove himself. Yeah, and he's young, so
Speaker 1: we'll see where that ends up. Goal one of the
Speaker 1: draft picks, Gholston, we already mentioned he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: remain on pop Um. We mentioned uh ohso DIGGI zooah,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna make it. And then the other guy,
Speaker 1: Will Kuamo actually stepped up and had a pretty nice
Speaker 1: game making the transition from uh guard, I mean guard
Speaker 1: from corner to safety. So you know, he got beat
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but he made plays. So that's
Speaker 1: the key to me in my right. Now you got safety,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get quarterbacks, right, somebody's gonna get beat, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry back, but you gotta make
Speaker 1: a play, gotta show that you can do something, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I would think, you know, he has a
Speaker 1: pretty good chance. And uh and then uh no, Sean
Speaker 1: Wright the corner. You know, he's gotten toasted a couple
Speaker 1: of he has. But I think they liked the possibilities,
Speaker 1: so maybe they don't want to, you know, give up
Speaker 1: the rights to him. Well, except for I think this
Speaker 1: last game, I thought he was even more solid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he was even more solid than Joseph. When
Speaker 1: you're looking at the plays that he made or didn't
Speaker 1: give up Right, but this last game he did show
Speaker 1: his vulnerability. It almost looked like, as a dB, you
Speaker 1: don't have time to U hav an off play. You
Speaker 1: don't have time to oh, my head wasn't in it
Speaker 1: this game. You just don't have time for that, because
Speaker 1: they're gonna find you. Burton was one of those guys
Speaker 1: the other night. They found him. Once they found him,
Speaker 1: a quarterback is going to come in the game. He's
Speaker 1: gonna say, what is my best chance of making the
Speaker 1: play against this defense. I'm gonna go against the guy
Speaker 1: that I just saw give up two passes, you know,
Speaker 1: to the other quarterback in the previous series. And so
Speaker 1: once they realized that that avenue was open, then Burton
Speaker 1: was a target. Then all of a sudden they found
Speaker 1: out that Right was also for this particular game, a target. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: then this is my opportunity to make the team if
Speaker 1: I can make it on anybody, trust me. Nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: everybody was like, you know what, there's my target right there,
Speaker 1: number twenty four, the guys from Grammy State University. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be the one we're gonna pick on. And so
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for that spags. You can't
Speaker 1: have a playoff. You can't look at when you when
Speaker 1: you when every every time the ball's in the air,
Speaker 1: as much as you might get beat, you'd better think
Speaker 1: that one of them's got to be yours. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: least one of them that's in the air. You can't
Speaker 1: have disbelief. You have to have confidence. And they also
Speaker 1: went after Calvin Joseph two a couple of deep balls.
Speaker 1: Yes they did. And that's kind of banding his uh downfall.
Speaker 1: It's getting beat on nine routes. And when you have
Speaker 1: a guy that can plays and who's got ball skills,
Speaker 1: this is the time to exhibit that. When the ball
Speaker 1: is in the air, you need to realize, this is
Speaker 1: my time to show them how I played the ball.
Speaker 1: And you just didn't see that. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: see the young guys come out and take the launch
Speaker 1: uh quarterbacking as a challenge. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted. I wanted to see them say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this guy's in my class. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show them why I was drafted. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show them why the Cowboys want me or need me,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be against the guy that some of
Speaker 1: them actually played against, yeah, in college. And and and
Speaker 1: I thought Joe Witt was talking about Nashan Wright from
Speaker 1: previous UM games, preseason games, and he says, until you know,
Speaker 1: when they see a guy like that get beat on
Speaker 1: a nine rock, until you shut it down, it's coming back.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the book on you. They're gonna test
Speaker 1: you to see if if, if, if you can you
Speaker 1: can deal with it or not. And so we should
Speaker 1: be getting these I don't see yet. So that's that's
Speaker 1: what I was always concerned about, is how are our
Speaker 1: DB's going to react to a quarterback like launch? And
Speaker 1: I gotta say I was disappointed because I saw the
Speaker 1: same things I saw last year, the same inability to
Speaker 1: play the ball. Um. You seemed witless when it came
Speaker 1: to finding the receiver himself. This guy's got the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands, you're still looking back to see if
Speaker 1: the ball's thrown. You know, there's a clock in your
Speaker 1: heads bags it has to go off. And it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It was doing They were doing well in practice, they
Speaker 1: were doing well in the early preseason games of course
Speaker 1: in college. But now this is the time to realize
Speaker 1: it's still the same foot, not the same football, but
Speaker 1: the air is still the same, the leather is still
Speaker 1: the same. Just look for the ball, catch it after
Speaker 1: you cover your man. And they were close enough, but
Speaker 1: then when it came to making the play, they were
Speaker 1: not there. And so we can say, oh man, he
Speaker 1: was in position, he was right there. We heard that
Speaker 1: crap all last year. We want to hear what the
Speaker 1: play he made on the ball. That's what we want
Speaker 1: exactly and that and that's what I think you'll see
Speaker 1: more of that from Trayvon Diggs this year. I think
Speaker 1: he'll be more solid with his coverage, not get jumpy
Speaker 1: out there. And I think that's what happened to get impatient. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do like, okay, I gotta go get this right.
Speaker 1: Because they keep running the ball. They might run like man,
Speaker 1: I gotta redeem might say, you might get blasted by
Speaker 1: running back or tight end or something. I gotta redeem myself,
Speaker 1: you know, because you know the film is always running.
Speaker 1: That's one thing you have to do spags when you play.
Speaker 1: You know the film is running right right, so you
Speaker 1: want you you don't want your teammates to see you
Speaker 1: giving up that you don't even want to see you
Speaker 1: getting beat, but you want your attitude to be one
Speaker 1: of Okay, he gave that one up, but you can
Speaker 1: just look at his determination. This guy gonna come back
Speaker 1: and make a play. You didn't see that last year,
Speaker 1: and this this last game to meet. That was the test.
Speaker 1: This is the stud and this is the guy you
Speaker 1: want to play well against. And they didn't spags, not
Speaker 1: at all. All Right, we got the move. What's you got?
Speaker 1: What's game? So? Um here it coming on, baby. So here.
Speaker 1: Here's the moves in order of how they're listed. Um,
Speaker 1: Chauncey Gholston uh passed his physical, so he's on the
Speaker 1: fifty three. I thought he was going on PUP, but
Speaker 1: he's on. Tristan Hill stays on PUP. T J. Natt
Speaker 1: Vasher Uh stays on NFIA reserve COVID UH nineteen. Noah
Speaker 1: Brown is on it. That's why you might. Okay, here
Speaker 1: are the guys that are released, and these are veteran guys,
Speaker 1: um that I think our l to come back. Garrett Gilbert,
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson, Deonte Burton, Jake McQuaid, the long snapper. He's
Speaker 1: a ten year veteran so he's vested, right, so they
Speaker 1: basically told him, don't go anywhere, we'll resign you. As
Speaker 1: I predicted, Jeremy Sprinkle, who is a fifth year guy
Speaker 1: he got released, and defensive tackle Justin Hamilton. Now I
Speaker 1: would imagine with Hala Hi when Neville Gallimore gets placed
Speaker 1: on reserve, recall ir, recall that he comes back. Now,
Speaker 1: the other guys that were released, Johnny Dixon, the wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Ben Denucci, oh Sirius Mitchell, Reggie Davis, Aaron Parker, Stephen Parker,
Speaker 1: Brenda Knox, Jaquan Hardy, Tyler Coyle, Nick Ralston got released.
Speaker 1: Nick you Banks, you're tight end. You asked for Artavius
Speaker 1: Lynn the tight end, Austin file you the defensive end,
Speaker 1: Isaac al Con. But he'll come back. He's he's on
Speaker 1: the basically on the practice squad. Braylon Jones, Brandon Smith,
Speaker 1: and Rondelle Carter. So really the guys that were waive
Speaker 1: that have to go through waivers, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any surprises there. Uh, he's another guy that they could
Speaker 1: so you know, why should that means they kept Kamara?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, the kid from Nigeria. Yes, yes, they had
Speaker 1: the great story on. So he's Andy and he that's
Speaker 1: one got the sack that didn't count, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he made it. I was trying to think of
Speaker 1: anybody else that surprisingly made it. So the guys that
Speaker 1: were released four year guys or more, Garrett Gilbert, Darien Thompson.
Speaker 1: I heard already that at least comes back to the
Speaker 1: practice squad. Deonte Burt, who basically cut himself in that
Speaker 1: last preseason game. Uh, Jake McQuaid the long snapper, he'll
Speaker 1: be a guy that ends up coming back when they
Speaker 1: put somebody on reserve, injured return, Eric Smith the offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: So they kept Brandon Knight, Terrence Steele and tying the
Speaker 1: second Farniac as we suggested. So those uh, and let's
Speaker 1: see that those are the backups that we can talk about. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Sprinkle chances he comes back when McEwan and then
Speaker 1: Justin Hamilton, deal Carthy. Uh yeah, Ron del Carter I
Speaker 1: thought he did well. He was waived. He has a
Speaker 1: chance to come back. I would because they've got to
Speaker 1: make the move. So that means they cause the interception
Speaker 1: if I'm not missa. Kept all those guys that were injured,
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore Sean McKeon, McEwan, Francis Bernard, uh, Terrell Bosham, Uh,
Speaker 1: Josh Ball, Kevin Kelvin, Joseph and Malik Turner the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So we should see some of those guys. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you said Hooker is okay? You said Hooki is okay. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and so Hooker's on. It says reserve COVID and
Speaker 1: they only got one guy on, so they must have
Speaker 1: h put the other four guys back on the on
Speaker 1: the roster because it doesn't say he was added. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so there there's probably at least three or
Speaker 1: four more moves that they have to make. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they have until Thursday. Now they can uh as of
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, so tomorrow at three pm when they
Speaker 1: can put these guys on reserve injured recall, which means
Speaker 1: they have to miss the three games. Then after those
Speaker 1: guys get moved, then you can sign guys back. You thay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then that no, Thursday was the COVID thing. Today's Tuesday. Wednesday,
Speaker 1: they can bring those guys, some guys back and you
Speaker 1: can start signing your practice squad. So to me, if
Speaker 1: you know, everybody clears waivers, you know they can have
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks on the practice squad if they want one
Speaker 1: quarterback on the practice squad. Rushes, you talk about the kickers, right,
Speaker 1: and then they're they're they're short at running back who
Speaker 1: basically cutting Walston. Then all you have is Zeke and
Speaker 1: Tony pollard um and you probably need something there. And
Speaker 1: I would imagine what they do is look at the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. Now, is there another young guy that I
Speaker 1: like better than the young guys I had on the roster?
Speaker 1: Because some guys that you scouted in the draft, you know,
Speaker 1: got cut. You you know about them, you just didn't
Speaker 1: get them. Yeah, it might assigned them with someone else first,
Speaker 1: right or you you couldn't you didn't draft them, or
Speaker 1: you didn't get the chance to sign them in free agency.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's still some more moves to be made.
Speaker 1: But that's what happen today. You can go to Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com. They'll all be listed there and then
Speaker 1: stay with us for sure tomorrow when some other moves
Speaker 1: are likely to be made. So for Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
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